:: In a Small Dark Room ::

:: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 ::

Yay! Archiving now works! After trying many different things, was only able to get it to find the archive files by putting them in the same folder/directory as the main archive files (use different names to distinguish blogs). A pain. May mean the 'permalinks' (see earlier post) are working, since they can now find the files, so I've re-instituted them.

Number of digital images is now nearly 5,000. Apparently the digital cameras tend to wear out, especially the charge-coupled device (CCD) that captures the image. Unlike analogue film cameras, where ones over a hundred years old can still be working. Hoping this one holds out a fair bit longer, but you _do_ tend to take quite a few more images than when using film.
Trying to use rechargeable batteries, but they're lasting a very short time, and at the moment, I don't seem to e able to charge them back up enough to make the camera work, even at full charge. Am using newer types that aren't supposed to have that 'memory' effect the Nickel-Cadmium ones do, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Altho' I'm a little sloppy with other backups, I'm making sure that very soon after downloading from the camera to the computer, I burn the images to a CD. So many people who lost their homes & belongings in the bushfires tried to save their photos. Building up a fair collection now. The size of the archive now does make it tricky to select ones for uploading to web (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it).

:: Mez 01:45 [+] ::
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